Kiribati - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Kiribati was 43.69 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 45.11 in 2011 and a minimum value of 26.29 in 1992.

Definition: Food comprises the commodities in SITC sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and SITC division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

See also:

Year Value
1973 37.04
1974 44.63
1975 39.19
1976 36.13
1977 34.11
1978 33.62
1979 40.04
1980 39.46
1983 32.15
1984 32.54
1985 32.63
1986 32.40
1987 37.20
1989 36.04
1990 31.43
1991 37.09
1992 26.29
1993 35.93
1994 40.69
1995 39.40
1996 40.88
1997 32.29
1998 41.36
1999 36.79
2004 28.75
2005 36.43
2006 37.69
2007 38.38
2008 40.52
2009 42.29
2010 40.70
2011 45.11
2012 33.71
2013 36.20
2014 37.96
2015 32.97
2016 36.58
2017 39.39
2018 37.48
2020 43.69

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports